My only access to the Internet is through a proxy, and I am unable to use rsync without SOCKS support. tsocks is a compact SOCKS 4/5 client which gives this support. Adding this package to the LiveCD would allow me to install directly onto this computer rather than finding a compiled version of tsocks, burning it to a CD, and moving it to this computer before I can do anything. For people without extra computers who are stuck behind a SOCKS proxy, this is even more important. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot LiveCD 2. Try to install 3. Fail miserably because it's impossible to emerge sync Actual Results: Can't use rsync through SOCKS proxy so need to copy over precompiled package Expected Results: Be able to use rsync through SOCKS proxy and happily install from LiveCD only
added tsocks to the livecd package list.. everything from now on will contain it.